Useful Cathartics

A Series of Articles on the Use and Abuse of Cathartics With Suggestive Formulas and Recipes

by Bernard Fantus

Excerpt

When physicians no longer prescribe physic whether the patient needs it or not, when doctors cure and neven cause the cathartic habit, when patients Who require an evacuant are fitted carefully, skillfully and artistically with the very agent best suited for them, when medical students are taught therapeutics with sufiicient thoroughness to enable them to prescribe the proper purge with intelligence and efficiency, when books _on pharmacology and therapeutics adequately deal with the use of medicines — then, a publication like the present little book will no longer be required. May that day soon be here.